Just Barely

Title: Just Barely

Place/Time: Artist-In-Residence at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology on the central coast of Oregon during October 2008 – January 2009

“Confluence” exhibition (Dawn Stetzel, Matt Bower, Louisa Conrad)  in the Chessman Gallery at the Lincoln City Cultural Center in Lincoln City, Oregon during January – February 2009

Materials:
Just Barely is made from wood from the place where the Salmon River and the Pacific Ocean meet, hand-carved nails, rope made from Cattail plant fibers and dyed with Red Alder tree bark, and Cedar bark houses glued together with the resin from Sitka Spruce trees.

Details:
Just Barely is a large structure that supports a tiny community. This structure holds up this fragile community, but just barely, as the ropes are thin, the twigs are flimsy and the engineered connections are a bit nonsensical.